We Bake for Bey!

We’ve had the honor of baking for the Queen herself on multiple occasions—learn more about the 3-tier custom geode cake we made for her and everything else we’ve baked for Beyoncé! 👑🐝✨

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Years before it happened, the intention was set.

When Lily Fischer first began her baking business, she said her goal was to someday bake for Beyoncé. In a kind of Oprah/The Secret way, she put the idea out into the universe.

In 2017, less than a year after opening her first brick-and-mortar outpost of Cake Life Bake Shop with friend and business partner Nima Etemadi, they got the call.

“Our saleswoman got off the phone and said, ‘What is Jay-Z’s real name?’ I said, ‘Sean Carter,’ and she said, ‘Oh, my God, I think we’re making a cake for Beyoncé.’”

Three days before Jay-Z’s yearly Labor Day weekend Made in America festival, Carter’s rep was hoping to order one of Cake Life’s geode cakes, which feature rock candy beautifully crafted to look like a vibrant rock formation. Geode cakes typically require ordering at least two weeks in advance. Of course, they made it work, and Fischer delivered the cake to the two-day music and arts festival headquarters.

Made with honey lavender cake and a honey-goat-cheese frosting, the three-tiered, black-and-gold, crown-topped stunner took inspiration from a Queen Bey Grammy ensemble. “We thought, let’s recreate it from that iconic performance where she was pregnant and looked like a goddess,” Fischer recalls.

When they posted photos of her cake to Instagram, the story blew up, and Cake Life was fielding calls from Bravo, Page Six, Yahoo Australia, and more outlets around the world. But perhaps the most surreal moment came two days later, when

Fischer got a call from a blocked number: “They said, ‘Beyoncé wants you to know she loved her cake.’”

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Even Queens Eat Funfetti!

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It’s September 2019, and “if you were anywhere near Instagram or the Parkway over Labor Day Weekend, you know that Beyoncé and her husband stopped by Made in America […] As any member of the Beyhive knows, her birthday is September 4th — and once again, the queen called upon Fishtown’s Cake Life Bake Shop for backstage birthday sweets.

“It’s like dreams coming true over and over again,” said co-owner Lily Fischer. “We’re still on cloud nine about it all.”

But this year’s order was different than 2017. […] In fact, you could walk into Cake Life right now and come out with Bey’s birthday cakes.

This time, Fischer said, the order from Beyoncé’s team came at the last minute, with no time to create and construct such an ornate design, so they sent a few cakes from their menu. The same menu they use for regular people like us.

That’s right: all Bey’s fellow Virgos have to do to cake like the queen is place an order.

Cake Life sent their funfetti cake, frosted in vanilla buttercream and topped with rainbow buttercream dollops and sprinkles, which Bey is holding in the Instagram post [to the right].

The order also included a late-summer, peaches-and-cream offering: vanilla cake with a bourbon syrup soak, bourbon peach compote, and vanilla bean mascarpone whipped cream, with a layer of cream cheese frosting on the outside. Sounds fit for a queen to me.

In addition to the cakes, Fischer included favorite sweets from the shop like lemon bars and honey shortbread cookies — “which we do each time we make treats for them, a wink and a nod to the Queen Bey,” she said. The bakery also sent along dinosaur-shaped sugar cookies and the rainbow-swirled meringues known as “unicorn poop” for Blue Ivy and the twins, Sir and Rumi.

“I love how she’s gotten one of our most extravagant cakes and one of our simplest cakes,” Fischer said. “Even queens eat funfetti, right?”

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